Music Visualisation: Key Concepts

Music Visualisation: Key Concepts

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Online score playback programs suffer from a couple of major yet entirely avoidable drawbacks.

Not being data-driven, the notation is (apart from some 'playback' and selection hacks) largely static: information-impoverished, accommodating no transformations, the notes in themselves no more than inert images.

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As a result, no data can be extracted directly from the notation, and nothing truly meaningful done with it. No integrated instrument models, no theory tools. No deep synergies with other disciplines such as art, storytelling or psychophysics.

There are of course modest exceptions. Data culled at a lower level and laboriously held in synch with displayed playback positions can be used to drive a lonely 'standard' instrument finger- or keyboard, such as guitar or piano. In essence, however, these are, and remain, hacks.

This is a vast, greenfield area inviting a paradigm change - to visual exploration. This has the power to unlock a wellspring of 'tacit knowledge' - "knowledge that cannot be put into words". Musicians hear songs when they read music, non-musicians seek visual patterns.

The world music aggregator and interworking platform in focus here overcomes all the above, radically and cleanly. Underlying it: a few simple concepts. Here a short, visual survey.

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Music Visualisation: Key Concepts

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Music + Data Viz = Music Viz Score- & Data-Driven, Structured, Personal

Unlock Core Structures Economy, Sufficiency, Elegance

Online Modelling Gaps Bring Missing Instruments & Tools Online

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The western, or classical, 12-tone equal temperament system is just one of many in use worldwide. Curious? You are far from alone.

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Radical Reuse Generic to Specific Modelling

Model Almost Any Instrument Heritage to Experimental

To Those First Instrument Models But With Total Configuration Control

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Much non-Western music is microtonal: classical music from India, Turkey, Arabia and Persia, gamelan music from Indonesia, xylophone music from Africa, Byzantine liturgical music, folk music from Middle- and Eastern Europe and the Caucasus.

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Instrumental Building Blocks Form, Function, Physics

Non-Profit: Social Value Wellspring Rote Reinvestment, No Wealth Hoarding

Integration & Control Change One → Change All

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We are heirs to a solid folk, traditional and world music foundation, comprising hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dances, work, protest, celebratory and travel songs, along with a vast repository of ritual and other community music.

My feeling is that the revenue optimisation that resulting from speculation would put at risk many of the performance and usage freedoms associated with these works - if not in the long term their existence. It seems essential that this reservoir and any derivatives be protected, and remain free to be developed. To this end: open source, community and enthusiast driven.

It is my hope that development of the instrument models and theory tools for this aggregator platform will be financed through crowd funding initiatives organised directly by the affected music communities. How?

World Music Visualisation Platform: Generating Social Value.

Building on a foundation of open web standards, crowdfunding fuels the development of instrument models and theory tools in an open source (liberal code reuse) context.

Content (the driving scores) can be created and shared by the community via editing tools such as NoteFlight (Freemium) or MuseScore (Open Source), and directly imported, currently as MusicXML.

Sharing as Central Platform Tenet

All resulting social value (including discussion) can be community moderated, with new implementation initiatives under the direction and control of the community as a whole.

Adequately funded, those involved in their development can focus their attention on technical execution. The goal is to build social value over time.

Building on this 'open-everything' model, the resulting animations would, for example, be made available to the whole community, allowing them to be brought on demand into the central animation panel.

Animation will be submitted via an established code repository such as Github.

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Keywords

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online music learning, online music lessons	distance music learning, distance music lessons	remote music lessons, remote music learning
p2p music lessons, p2p music learning	music visualisation music visualization	musical instrument models interactive music instrument models
music theory tools musical theory	p2p music interworking p2p musical interworking	comparative musicology ethnomusicology
world music international music	folk music traditional music	P2P musical interworking, Peer-to-peer musical interworking
WebGL, Web3D, WebVR, WebAR	Virtual Reality, Augmented or Mixed Reality	Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Scalar Vector Graphics, SVG	3D Cascading Style Sheets, CSS3D	X3Dom, XML3D

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Music Visualisation: Social Value

Music Visualisation: Social Value

By   11:33:00 AM   No comments:

How a music visualisation platform can generate social value, the costs held low, the content quality high and hoarding of wealth avoided. A strategy for easing inequality?

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Music Visualisation: Social Value Generation

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Innovation Incubator & Showcase Ensure Musical Understanding Flows

Music And Dance Integration Catalyst, Cultural Passport

Wilfully Open Source Sharing For Diversity

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Community provisioned, managed and maintained, built specifically for the post-employment age - and a world with fewer borders.

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Drive Cultural Exchange With Embeddable Teaching Models

Liberate the Virtuoso Delegate the Banal

Unleash Empowerment Energies Along Myriad New Pathways

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Social value goals get really interesting when viewed from the perspective of the Harvard Business Review's 'Elements of Value Pyramid'. Here, we find ourselves firing on all cylinders. More on this in a future post..

The Elements Of Value Pyramid

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Keywords

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online music learning, online music lessons	distance music learning, distance music lessons	remote music lessons, remote music learning
p2p music lessons, p2p music learning	music visualisation music visualization	musical instrument models interactive music instrument models
music theory tools musical theory	p2p music interworking p2p musical interworking	comparative musicology ethnomusicology
world music international music	folk music traditional music	P2P musical interworking, Peer-to-peer musical interworking
WebGL, Web3D, WebVR, WebAR	Virtual Reality, Augmented or Mixed Reality	Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Scalar Vector Graphics, SVG	3D Cascading Style Sheets, CSS3D	X3Dom, XML3D

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Music Visualisation: Prototype

Music Visualisation: Prototype

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Yes, of course there's a prototype (the image above is taken from it). You can also see a few videos by following the links below. They reflect some of the main features implemented so far.

Though the core functionality is established and working well, with nothing stopping it's being copied, the prototype can't yet be placed online. For that to happen, it needs to pass the first really significant milestone, funding of a minimum viable product (MVP). This will establish the framework upon which a treasury of exchangeable world music instrument models and theory tools can be developed, integrated and made public.

Getting this initial funding is the goal of the crowd funding initiative.

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Prototype. (Videos on Youtube, Tumblr or Vimeo)

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Discovery, Selection, Population Of Instruments and Theory Tools

Immersion and Immediacy Synchronised, Interactive, Dynamic, Context-Rich

Visual Classification of Genre Context for Preferences

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Most technical approaches to managing complexity are based on decomposition. Ours focusses on SYNTHESIS from multiple data trees, allowing the generation of a vast range of musical instruments and tools. The core concept is simple, eliminating many purely "complexity management" dependencies. This in turn makes the framework blisteringly fast. More technical stuff waaaay below.

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Data-Driven + Algorithmic Placement Unparalleled Freedoms And Consistency

Highly Customisable Populate With Instruments and Tools Prefs

Diversity By Default Flexible Step By Step Configuration

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For all it's visual sophistication, scalar vector graphics code is compact and economic in execution. Of the three potential bottlenecks (initial display, transformations during playback, and running changes by the user), none have been found to have significant impact.

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Two Simple Theory Tools Tonal Deltas & Tonal Circle

1st Instrument Family Modelled: LUTES Hornbostel-Sachs Number: 321

Accurate Instrument Configuration For Community Reuse

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​The vision of a global world music aggregator platform has been shown feasible. Though many of the trickier problems have been solved, bringing it to full production in a non-profit, open-source format will be challenging. This is best tackled by a small band of adventurers - nimble, fast and focussed - with wide community support. Join the Fellowship. Celebrate the Past. Forge the Future.

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Next Score-Driven Theory Tool? Harmonic Spiral (Just Intonation)

Further Rollout Cycles -First Cut-

Musical Diversity Though Combinatorial Power

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Keywords

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online music learning, online music lessons	distance music learning, distance music lessons	remote music lessons, remote music learning
p2p music lessons, p2p music learning	music visualisation music visualization	musical instrument models interactive music instrument models
music theory tools musical theory	p2p music interworking p2p musical interworking	comparative musicology ethnomusicology
world music international music	folk music traditional music	P2P musical interworking, Peer-to-peer musical interworking
WebGL, Web3D, WebVR, WebAR	Virtual Reality, Augmented or Mixed Reality	Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Scalar Vector Graphics, SVG	3D Cascading Style Sheets, CSS3D	X3Dom, XML3D

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Music Visualisation: Catalysts

Music Visualisation: Catalysts

By   11:23:00 AM   No comments:

Though the original idea came some 15 or more years ago, a number of fairly recent advances, some environmental, some in technology arena, some cultural and political, others conceptual, were decisive in triggering action on the idea of a graphical world music visualization site.

This page catalogues some of the more significant ones.

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Catalysts

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Vibrant Examples Ecosystem The Idea Is Entirely Feasible

Enabling Technologies (Thus Far) SVG (Scalar Vector Graphics) & D3.js

Community Provisioning Clear And Simple

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Recent advances in in-browser, data-driven visualisation libraries combined with a rapidly expanding treasury of liberally-licensed examples have dramatically eased the path to wide scale music visualisation. Indeed, for some time, all that has stood in the way was the lack of an integration framework flexible enough to reflect world music's great diversity. The waiting may soon be over.

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Peek And Ye Shall Find It's All Out There, And It's Free

Crowd Intelligence Stepwise To The Superlative

Learning Approaches Green Light To Music Visualisation

Further catalysts are undoubtably the dramatic move from paper to online music scores in general, but also the broad move from proprietary towards open source music notation, the advance of scanning technologies (paper-bitmap-MusicXML), the adoption of MusicXML as a W3C standard for music exchange, the proliferation of interest in more visually oriented music teaching as apparent from the many excellent YouTube videos, online courses and tools, but also the liberation of cultural curiosity, expressed by recent research in areas such as transnotation.

In themselves, however, these go only part of the way. The next concrete round of musical liberation will be brought about by visualization platforms such as that in focus here.

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Keywords

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online music learning, online music lessons	distance music learning, distance music lessons	remote music lessons, remote music learning
p2p music lessons, p2p music learning	music visualisation music visualization	musical instrument models interactive music instrument models
music theory tools musical theory	p2p music interworking p2p musical interworking	comparative musicology ethnomusicology
world music international music	folk music traditional music	P2P musical interworking, Peer-to-peer musical interworking
WebGL, Web3D, WebVR, WebAR	Virtual Reality, Augmented or Mixed Reality	Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Scalar Vector Graphics, SVG	3D Cascading Style Sheets, CSS3D	X3Dom, XML3D

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